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Motion filed to remove Barbour County Judge Burt Smithart from Alabama Football Player's Case


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Posted by: RStokes
Date: Jan 31 2015 8:53 AM

Judge Burt Smithart


By Jon B. Carroll


MONTGOMERY – A formal motion was filed last night to request Judge Burt Smithart be removed from the Will Dickerson 
murder trial. The motion filed by Dickerson’s attorney J. Carlton Taylor, is based on new evidence of bias and alleged criminal activity from Smithart in a document filed with the State’s Judicial Inquiry Commission. It has been revealed in the past 48 hours that the judge made a threat against Mr Dickerson to an officer of the court, and we have learned subsequently, the judge has pursued a pattern of intimidating material witnesses to the case.


Judge Smithart at this point is believed will be called as a witness in the trial of Mr Dickerson. Confidential sources in state law enforcement, speaking on the strict condition of anonymity, believe that a large scale drug network, based in Barbour county, pressured Judge Smithart to engage in illegal activities. It is believed that Judge Smithart, working with District Attorney Ben C. Reeves, manipulated the court and legal proceedings to prevent Dickerson from having a fair trial, falsifying court documents and destroying evidence that prove who actually robbed and murdered Willie Pugh. Dickerson ( with a clean record) has been held for years in jail with no bond in a gross violation of his constitutional rights and prevented from having any access to the evidence the state has against him, or the discovery documents of his case. All rights guaranteed by law. Sitting in a six by nine windowless concrete cell, with no access to a minister or the outside world, he has had only a small bible to comfort him. He however has not given up hope for justice.



God knows I am innocent and only God can defeat the powers that are working against me. I cannot say what I know, as my family has been threatened. I can say, without any hesitation, I did not kill Willie Pugh.”



Dickerson has maintained his innocence since his arrest in Jan of 2012, and not been allowed to take a polygraph test. Multiple witnesses connected to the case are missing, have been murdered, or died under questionable circumstances.


If found guilty, Judge Burt Smithart, could be removed from the bench, disbarred and face a lengthy prison sentence.


We have also learned that an attorney Judge Smithart personally assigned to Dickerson case,Jennifer Tompkins and has deep personal connections to, Jennifer Tompkins, has been questioned about her potential illegal involvement in arranging a deal for one of her clients to change his previous sworn testimony, and agree to testify against her other client, Will Dickerson. In return for this arrangement, District Attorney Ben C. Reeves, it has been shared with us, agreed to reduce charges of murder and fix the bail, so the client of Tompkins could be immediately released. Said client, walked out of the Barbour county jail thursday afternoon after agreeing to the deal.


Pastor Kenneth Sharpton Glasgow of The Ordinary People Society, the pastoral advocate for the family, has called on the U.S. Justice Department to fully investigate the case.



What is most troubling is we have for the first time have a live view of the process of how a corrupt prosecutor can withhold exculpatory evidence from a grand jury and this then be kept secret, and then pressure the court to violate the defendants rights and aggressively try to convict a man, all the time while hiding the DNA evidence of the people he knows actually killed the victim. What we are watching is a crime unfold before our very eyes. We are now receiving information that the Will Dickerson case is not the only one handled this way in the third judicial district but one of many. This undermines the integrity of the entire judicial system of Alabama and demands intervention from the highest levels of government “



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